Case Study: Ethiopia Surrounding Gold Mining Company reduces escalating social unrest risks with Prewave

Ethiopia Surrounding Gold Mining Company - Customer Case Study

Ethiopia Surrounding Gold Mining Company faced escalating sustainability and supply chain risks amid years of unrest around gold mining in Ethiopia, including corruption allegations, pollution, social unrest, and business interruption. The company needed a way to continuously monitor a volatile incident area where much of the relevant reporting was in Amharic.

Prewave used its multilingual monitoring approach to track local news and social media, detect early warning signals, and provide historical as well as real-time event monitoring. Prewave identified protests, reports of toxic practices and missing students, and rising unrest across Oromia, helping flag high risk before the situation escalated; the government ultimately revoked the mining license and the mine ceased operations.